Hoboken High School Emergency Response Team receives boost from Jersey City Medical Center

Jersey City Medical Center will officially announce its sponsorship of the Hoboken High School Emergency Response Team tomorrow 11 a.m. at an event at the Medical Center, 355 Grand Street.

The only response team of its kind in New Jersey, the group consists of students at Hoboken High who respond, with supervision, to actual 911 emergency calls.

The team was formed following September 11, 2001, when 57 of the town’s residents were killed in the attacks. Prompted by the students’ request to help, the school district applied for and received funding from the Learn and Serve America Grant.

Since then, as the only high school ambulance corps in the state, the student-comprised emergency response team has responded to emergency calls throughout the city as part of the 911 call system, in addition to its responsibility at school and city events. During this time, all students have been trained at no cost in Jersey City Medical Center’s EMT training program. It has been self-funded through various fundraisers.

Now, as a result of the partnership with the schools’ ERT, the hospital is donating $2,000, providing the ambulance with medical supplies and equipment, and establishing a college scholarship.

Christopher Munoz, who works at Jersey City Medical Center as a patient access supervisor and as a history teacher at Hoboken High School, was the catalyst behind the new partnership.